Google announced a new effort to support businesses developing AI.

On Monday, Google appear the barrage of its AI Futures Fund, a new action that seeks to advance in startups that are architecture with the latest AI accoutrement from Google DeepMind, the company’s AI R&D lab.

The armamentarium will aback startups from berry to backward date and will action capricious degrees of support, including acceptance founders to accept aboriginal admission to Google AI models from DeepMind, the adeptness to assignment with Google experts from DeepMind and Google Labs, and Google Cloud credits. Some startups will additionally accept the befalling to accept absolute advance from Google.

“The AI Futures Armamentarium doesn’t chase a accumulation or accomplice model,” a Google agent told TechCrunch. “Instead, we accede opportunities on a rolling base — there’s no anchored appliance window or deadline. When we appear beyond companies that adjust with the fund’s thesis, we may accept to invest. We’re not announcement a specific armamentarium admeasurement at this time, and analysis sizes alter based on the company’s date and needs — about aboriginal to mid-stage, with adaptability for later-stage opportunities as well.”

AI Futures Armamentarium already has some case studies. Startups such as the meme-making belvedere Viggle and the webtoon app Toonsutra alternate in the program.
Google has been authoritative big commitments over the accomplished few months to abutment the abutting bearing of AI aptitude and accurate breakthroughs.

Last November, Google.org, the company’s accommodating wing, appear a $20 actor banknote charge to advisers and scientists alive in AI. Before that, in September, Google CEO Sundar Pichai appear the aggregation was creating a $120 actor Global AI Befalling armamentarium to advice accompany AI apprenticeship and training to added places about the world. Google.org additionally launched a $20 actor abundant AI accelerator affairs to cut checks to nonprofits developing AI tech.

Google also provides Google for Startups entrepreneurs Funds, which help entrepreneurs from many sectors and backgrounds establish businesses, including AI startups. In February, a spokesman informed TechCrunch that the fund will begin investing in AI-focused firms in the United States this year, with further details coming later.